T - Junction in Leitrim after sunset. This is a sketch for a shot I plan to take when I can get a dry road. A high spot on the road, I just love the arrangement of lights here. This was the first, test shot of 6 I took this evening. For some reason, it was the only one not effected by lens-flare ... the dread of the night-photographer! Lens-flare and me have crossed swords often and our engagements usually are amicably resolved. Lens quality and focal length have a lot to do with controlling this nasty anomaly.
It's been another long week, I'm looking forward to the weekend.
It's been another long week, I'm looking forward to the weekend.
Photo: Single frame. Tripod shot. 17-55mm Lens @ 38mm. I usually fire a test shot just to see the quality of light, for this I'm not concerned about the camera settings, so here the ISO was 400, 1/15 @ f/2.8.
Once I deduced that the image was worth the effort, I set the camera proper - ISO 100. then decided on an aperture to give decent depth of field, f/10. The resulting shutter speeds were between 4 and 6 seconds. I took a further 5 shots, changing position and composition slightly in each case. However, none measure up to the first 'fluke' shot. In this exercise I'm thinking that a smaller aperture is less likely to have lens-flare issues, it certainly seems to be the case on this occasion. Post-processing was limited to WB and Levels tweaks.
